Thus beset on every side by misfortunes so dire, what, think you, was my state of mind?
 If I kept silent I should be defrauded of my money by Pasion here; if I should make this
 complaint, I was none the more likely to recover it and I should bring myself and my
 father into the greatest disrepute with Satyrus. The wisest course, therefore, as I
 thought, was to keep silent.